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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shirly

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,042

peak year 1936

More common than

90%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1936
31 births
Best rank
#1,316
in 1936
First recorded
1911
#2,811 that year
Last recorded
2016
no later published record
Average birth year
1955
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
84 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 193631#1,316Peak
  2. 193527#1,440
  3. 193726#1,489
  4. 193926#1,509
  5. 194225#1,700

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,316 in 1936 · peak births 31 in 1936

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 3% boys■ 97% girls

27 boys · 1,042 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shirly has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.